Bella Freud

Bella Freud (born 17 April 1961) is a London-based fashion designer with a number of celebrity clients.

Freud was born in London, England. She is the daughter of Bernardine Coverley and artist Lucian Freud and great granddaughter of the inventor of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud. Her father Lucian Freud (born 8 December 1922) died 20 July 2011 at the age of 88. Only four days later, her mother died on 24 July 2011 at the age of 68 of cancer.

Her only full sibling is her sister, writer Esther Freud, who wrote the memoir of their hippie childhood in Morocco, Hideous Kinky.

Freud started working for Vivienne Westwood during the 1980s before setting up her own design company. She also spent a year as guest designer for Stirling Cooper and undertook consultancy work for the British fashion company Jaeger during the 1990s. She has been responsible for the relaunch and revamp of fashion house Biba.

Freud is married to James Fox, the author of the book White Mischief, and they have one son named Jimmy born around 2001.

Freud worked with John Malkovich in 1999 to produce three short films in forty-eight hours to document her fashion collection.

In an appearance on the BBC current affairs program Newsnight on 2 August 2006, she voiced an impassioned denunciation of Israel's "disproportionately violent aggression" in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon Conflict.

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